Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinics have closed down , essential drugs have n't been bought or distributed , health workers have been unpaid and had to revert to other ways of earning a living . |
| 2 | Second , once divested of their zonae , embryos of all stages are very sticky and tend to adhere to one another as well as to most culture dishes . |
| 3 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 4 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 5 | But once outside , Dana and I became quarrelsome and started to fight with one another , releasing heaven knows what accumulated stores of fury and resentment . |
| 6 | This is extremely confusing if you upgrade from version 4.2 to version 4.5 and have to refer to two manuals with identical titles containing different information . |
| 7 | Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain . |
| 8 | The tradition that stone circles and standing stones are human beings who have been turned to stone because of some misdemeanour is widespread and seems to point to some memory of the ritual use of these sites in ancient times . |
| 9 | They are poor and have to cope with young and demanding children on their own . |
| 10 | In other words , the symptoms were at their worst during the hot , dry summers of the early Eighties and started to improve in subsequent wet summers . |
| 11 | The effects of the uncertainty principle will then become very important and seem to point to some remarkable results . |
| 12 | The appeal for a day of prayer for peace came as the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina grows worse and threatens to spread into other areas of the Balkans and beyond . |
| 13 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |
| 14 | The practice closed during World War I , but reopened in London in 1919 and continued to flourish until 1939 . |
| 15 | The buyer also should be able to sue on the basis of breach of contract if the item is defective and fails to comply with implied terms such as those concerning merchantable quality and fitness for purpose . |
| 16 | They met in 1968 and began to cohabit in 1969 , although they did not marry until 1978 . |